Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Will Durant
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About Will Durant
William James Durant was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations. It was written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy (1926), described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy".
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.